Display device

Abstract

A display device that is to be connected with an information terminal includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up on display the screen based upon the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the information terminal, displacement quantity information corresponding to a quantity of displacement from the display position of the cursor to the touch position.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A display device that is to be connected with an information terminal, comprising:
 a video reception unit that receives an image from the information terminal; 
 a touch panel that brings up on display the image received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and 
 a control unit that receives information of a resolution of a display unit of the information terminal from the information terminal, when the touch position is detected by the touch panel, calculates an amount of displacement between the touch position specified by the touch operation and a reference position of the touch panel, converts the amount of displacement to an amount of displacement for the display unit of the information terminal based upon the resolution of the display unit of the information terminal and a resolution of the touch panel, and transmits, to the information terminal, a converted amount of displacement for the display unit of the information terminal and information of the reference position of the touch panel, wherein the information of the reference position of the touch panel is information indicating a right bottom end of the touch panel; 
 wherein after completion of the touch operation, the control unit transmits information indicating a predetermined maximum amount of displacement from the touch position to the reference position for lateral and longitudinal directions of the touch panel to the information terminal. 
 
     
     
       2. A display method for a device that is to be connected with an information terminal, comprising:
 receiving information of a resolution of a display unit of the information terminal from the information terminal; 
 receiving an image from the information terminal; 
 displaying the received image on a touch panel; 
 detecting a touch position specified by a touch operation on the touch panel; 
 calculating, when the touch position is detected by the touch panel, an amount of displacement between the touch position specified by the touch operation and a reference position of the touch panel; 
 converting the amount of displacement to an amount of displacement for the display unit of the information terminal based upon the resolution of the display unit of the information terminal and a resolution of the touch panel; 
 transmitting, to the information terminal, a converted amount of displacement for the display unit of the information terminal, and information of the reference position of the touch panel, wherein the information of the reference position of the touch panel is information indicating a right bottom end of the touch panel; and 
 transmitting to the information terminal, after completion of the touch operation, information indicating a predetermined maximum amount of displacement from the touch position to the reference position for lateral and longitudinal directions of the touch panel.